UNIMA
UNIMA (Union Internationale de la Marionnette - International Puppetry Association) was founded in Prague in 1929 (the then Czechoslovak magazine Loutkář was UNIMA's first official journal in years 1929-1930). In 1981, the French puppeteer Jacques Félix moved UNIMA's headquarters to Charleville-Mézières, France, location of the Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes since 1972. UNIMA is affiliated to UNESCO and it is a member of the International Theatre Institute.
National centers
There are National centers throughout the world,[1] which include:
- UNIMA-USA founded by Jim Henson in 1966. In 1992 the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta became the headquarters for UNIMA-USA
- UNIMA Australia
- UNIMA Pakistan
- British UNIMA
- UNIMA France - THEMAA
UNIMA World Congresses
World congresses have been held in:[2]
- 1929: Prague (Presidency: Jindřich Veselý)
- 1929: Paris
- 1930: Liège
- 1933: Ljubljana (New presidency: Josef Skupa) (New General Secretary: Jan Malík)
- 1957: Prague (New presidency: Max Jacob)
- 1958: Bucharest
- 1960: Bochum-Braunschweig
- 1962: Warsaw
- 1966: Munich
- 1969: Prague (New presidency: Jan Bussell)
- 1972: Charleville-Mézières (New General Secretary: Henryk Jurkowski)
- 1976: Moscow (New presidency: Sergej Obrazcov)
- 1980: Washington D.C. (New General Secretary: Jacques Felix)
- 1984: Dresden (New presidency: Henryk Jurkowski)
- 1988: Nagoya
- 1992: Ljubljana (New presidency: Sirppa Sivori-Asp)
- 1996: Budapest
- 2000: Magdeburg (New presidency: Margareta Niculescu)
- 2004: Rijeka (New presidency: Massimo Schuster) (New General Secretary: Miguel Arreche)
- 2008: Perth (New presidency: Dadi Pudumjee) (New General Secretary: Jacques Trudeau)
- 2012: Chengdu
- 2016: Tolosa
See also
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